Art & Stitch

Art and Stitch

stand-alone digitizing software for longarm quilters and machine embroiderers

Have you ever wanted to create art quilts? Use beautiful patterns but you are lacking the true freemotion skills?  Become an artist with the new powerful Art & Stitch program:

With Art and Stitch you can draw your own quilt patterns from scratch, or trace a background image, turn that vector artwork into quilt patterns for your longarm system, you can edit existing patterns (quilt patterns, but also embroidery designs), and you can setup full quilt layouts too. 

Art and Stitch is 4 programs in one: vector drawing, digitizing, conversion and layout software!

• Use the professional drawing tools to create your quilt patterns: Freehand sketch, Line, Curve, Bezier, 3pt Arc. Edit points/anchors, by selecting and moving them.

• Draw from scratch or open an image for (auto)tracing.

• Fill shapes with motifs, cross hatching, wave fills, autostipple, Creative background fillers. Use those fills around a design, result will be jumpfree crosshatching, waves, motifs!

• Or turn shapes into applique designs with a mouse click (applique for longarm quilting is fun!).

• Open vector artwork from Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Pre-Design Studio III,  AutoSketch, ElectricQuilt. You can even paste vectors directly from Pre-Design Studio III, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and AutoSketch.  Export artwork as Ai, WMF, EMF.

• Save in computerized longarm formats DXF, ABM Innova PAT, CompuQuilter CQP, HQ Pro HQF, IntelliQuilter IQP, PC Quilter TXT, QBot PLT, SideSaddle SSD, StatlerStitcher QLI. And save in embroidery machine formats: Brother Babylock Bernina PES, Elna/Janome/Kenmore SE, Janome/Elna JEF, Melco/Bernina EXP, Pfaff PCS, Singer XXX, Tajima DST, Viking SHV, HUS, Viking/Pfaff VIP, VP3.

• Open, merge, edit, tweak existing quilt designs (all major formats supported). Open, edit, tweak, merge machine embroidery designs (all major formats supported) - turn your longarm quilt system into the biggest embroidery hoop ever!
• Introduction Price is US$885. Shipped directly to you Free.
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Try Art and Stitch before you Buy

• The trial version does not allow anything to be saved, but you can use all functions and follow along with the Tutorial movies.

• The User Guide can be opened via menu Help > User Guide. Tutorial movies are on this website.

• To test some of the patterns on your quilt system, download and unzip the Sample Patterns. The folder contains patterns made in the tutorial movies, saved in all supported quilt formats. Take the format of your quilt system, save on a USB stick, insert into your system and sew.

• For any questions, please contact us, or ask in the ArtnStitch Yahoogroup